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EWING H. TAYLOR, 0F PETERSBURG, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES OF FAYETTEVILLE, TENNESSEE.

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WELL-BUCKET VALVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EWING I-I. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Petersburg, in the county of Lincoln and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Well- Bucket Valves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to well buckets, and one of the objects thereof is to provide a valve and actuating means therefor adapted to normally close an orifice in the well bucket bottom, but which is adapted to be efiiciently unseated for the purpose of permitting the contents of the bucket being d1scharged into a suitable receptacle.

It is also the purpose of my invention to provide a valve having a rest engaging lifting member extending from an intermediate position beneath the valve in such manner that when the lifting member is caused to engage a rest any liability of the valve binding against the edges of the orifice which it closes will be avoided.

I have also provided means to prevent accidental displacement of the lifting member with respect to its rest, during the time that the bucket is discharging.

Other objects and advantages of this invention will be specifically referred to hereinafter, it being understood that changes in form, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from this invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

The figure in the drawin is a view in elevation of a well bucket, s owing in section that part to which the invention is applied.

Referring now to the drawing by numerals of reference, 1 designates a well bucket provided with a bail 2, and with a bottom 3, having an outlet orifice 4. The outlet orifice 4 is normally closed by a valve 5, provided with a valve lifting member 6, connected to the valve by the centrally located depending connector 7, which is here shown as comprising an inverted U shaped connector, having outwardly extending ends 8 and 9, riveted or otherwise secured to the lifting member 6.

The lifting member 6 is illustrated as comprising a bar having depending ends 10 and 11, adapted whenthe bucket is discharging to engage the edge or rim of a pail or receptacle 12.

When the bucket is withdrawn from the well tube and it is desired to discharge it, the liftervor bar 6 will initially rest upon the bottom of the receptacle into which it empties, to unseat the valve 5. This will cause most, but not all, the water to pass out through the orifice 4. When the level of the water in receptacle 12 reaches that in bucket 1, it will be necessary to rest the bar 6 upon the rim of the receptacle 12, so that some intermediate point of the bar, preferably the center, will come in contact with the rim to unseat valve 5 to permit the remainder of the water in bucket 1 to discharge through orifice 4. While it is not absolutely essential that the bar strike the rim at the exact center, it is desirable to accomplish the seating of the bar upon the rim at some point adjacent to the axial center of the bucket 1, so that the valve 5 will be unseated without the liability of binding member 7 against the walls of the orifice 4. As soon as the bar or lifting member 6 comes in contact with the rim, the valve will be unseated and the bar may then slide upon the rim until one of the ends 10 or 11 comes in contact with the rim of the receptacle 12, so as to prevent accidental displacement of the lifting member with the rim of receptacle l2. Inasmuch as the member 6 cannot become accidentally disengaged from contact with the rim of receptacle 12, the valve will remain unseated until the contents of the bucket 1 pass through the orifice 4, whereupon the bucket may be lifted and again introduced into the well tube.

I am aware that well buckets have been provided heretofore with valves adapted to be unseated by some device or element which has been capable of engaging a part of the receptacle, but these have been more or less unsatisfactory, either due-to the fact that the lifting or actuating member was liable to become easily displaced from contact with the receptacle, or else the actuating devices were such complicated designs as to prohibit their extensive use.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that I have provided a valve and actuator for well buckets, which not only admirably serves the purpose for which they are intended, but which are simple in construction, and sure of operation.

I claim:

In a well bucket, a valve opening, a valve for normally closing said opening, a lifting member connected to said valve, said valve having a fiat surface adapted tocover the valve opening, and a body portion of sufficient dimensions to provide a weight where by the valve may be kept firmly closed under normal conditions; said lifting member comthe opposite rim portions of a receptacle.

The foregoing specification signed at Petersburg, Tennessee, this 29th day of December, 1916.

EWING H. TAYLOR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained tor-five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G. 

